We got the power supply issues solved, and the wifi is also now working well thanks to the great help from the organizers. 09.40 Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital introducing the Summit: “The 21st Century is going to be far more greater, and/or far more terrible then the 20th Century. We are here to make sure […]
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Image by David Trowbridge This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil‘s, Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s, and Ben Goertzel‘s work for some time, it is my opinion that the institute that they are directing, together with Tyler Emerson, Bruce Klein, and others, is one of the most important today,
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Alerted by New World Notes, I attended the lecture by Kevin Warwick on Uvvy Island this afternoon, antitled “Upgrading Humans, Why Not?”, where he presented his experiences as a cyborg. At the Q&A sessions I asked him two questions, which he was kind enough to answer. “The UK has shown to be able and find
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I have been invited to speak at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Aegis Media, the media, communications, and market research group. The title of my talk is going to be “A New Life for Marketing in Virtual Worlds – What are you really promoting in Second Life”, and as usual it will be possible to
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Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of
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The video of my seminar “Online Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is online on Google Video: If you can’t see the embedded video above, follow the direct link to it:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2588190120892764006
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My seminar “Virtual Worlds And Second Life – Towards The Metaverse” is now available online as a podcast, as held on Berkman Island yesterday. Please subscribe to it with iTunes, or your favorite podcast software. (The logo you see on the top, is a draft for the podcast illustration, and it has its own story,
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Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded. powered by performancing
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Just in time for my seminar of Second Life next week at the University of Milan, there are new interesting analyses by Tristan Luis of the economy of the online world. Whether the more pessimistic or optimistic projections of user uptake are the valid ones at the end, and if really many or most users
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